ASHDOWN (AP) — Officials say an unlikely culprit has been raiding snacks and knocking over flower pots at a courthouse in southwest Arkansas: an opossum nicknamed “Juror No. 13.”

The Texarkana Gazette reported Wednesday officials at the Little River County Courthouse in Ashdown caught the opossum and released it into the wild.

“It found a couple of holes in the courthouse floor, and we think crawled up along an electrical conduit. It looked like it came down into the lobby from the ceiling,” said Tom Knighten, the building’s maintenance supervisor.

Circuit Clerk Andrea Billingsley discovered droppings in a stairwell Sunday. She was at the courthouse setting out snacks for potential jurors who were coming for a court session the next morning.

She cleaned up the droppings that day, but the lobby appeared vandalized again when she returned for work Monday. Another mess was left after the courthouse closed Monday afternoon.

“It looked like he had a pretty good meal Monday night and had gotten into cookies and soda pop,” Knighten said.

He said the courtroom was packed for jury selection Monday. “If whatever was loose in the courthouse had come into the courtroom, it would have really been a show,” Knighten said.

On Tuesday morning, the animal was found in a dark corner — close to a 5-gallon water bottle and near Judge Clayton Castleman’s office.

“He snarled at us pretty good,” Knighten said of the opossum.

Jail Administrator Chad Akins, who grabbed the animal, said it weighed about 10 pounds.